MY TALENTED FOLLOWERS

Jenny Lawrence

Hi and welcome to cardsarus blog spot
My name is Jenny Lawrence and I live in Kent.
I am married to Tony, my dear and wonderful hubby.
We have been married for 34 years. I lost my first Husband to the big C when I was quite young. I have 3 children and 3 stepchildren. 12 Grandchildren and 3 Little Great Granddaughters and a Great Grandson. I have been card making for about 17years.
I have made things all my life as my Mum and Grand Mother taught me lots of hobbies.
I have made my own clothes, knitted garments, hand embroidered items of clothing, and crocheted items too.
I love to bake my own cakes as well.

Sunday, 31 July 2016

Now this made me think as I don't have any punches that are butterfly shaped.

I know your all shouting it doesn't have to be a butterfly punch well I knew that, but still I was at a quandary what punch to use, because of a on going eye problem I can't see to line up the edger punches of which I have a few.

So I had a light bulb moment, and remembered I had a Martha Stewart set of circular punches which were languishing in a bottom draw in my craft room.

So here is my card to enter the challenge.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

I used the Martha Stewart Modern Lace circular punch.

Threaded some ribbon through the design.

The butterfly is a very old wooden stamp I have had for ages, and I heat embossed it with white embossing powder, and then coloured it with Colour Cloud Inks, and used a Quickie glue pen and Glamour Dust to give it some sparkle.

Saturday, 30 July 2016

I very much appreciate every visit you make.Sorry if I haven't visited anyone yet. I'm trying to catch up on my comments as I'm having a very busy time at the mo with the up and coming fund raising event at my daughter's works next week.

On Monday I looked after my Grand Children who are on their summer holidays from school.

Before my little Granddaughter broke up from school she asked me to make her a card for her teacher who had just got engaged.

So here is the card I made for her teacher.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

I cut out the front heart shape with birds on my ScanNcut in blue and white and off set them.

I added a blue gliitter background to it.

This I made by spraying aerosol glue and putting glitter all over it on the blue card.The corners were cut on the ScanNcut also.

Tuesday, 26 July 2016

I spent the day yesterday looking after my Grand Children as it's the summer holidays.

I will be doing this occasionally throughout the summer holidays luckily it's not every day as my DIL only works part time, and she and my Son take their holidays separately so they can look after the children, and grand parents don't have to do much.

They are so thoughtful like that.

Well onto my card for today, to enter the Butterfly Challenge before it ends tomorrow.

This is a 6"x6" size card.

Now I really struggled with this challenge as I didn't have any denim colour card so I sanded down some Navy card to make it look more like denim.

I added a pull string white petal on a roll to make the flower, and then added a lace butterfly on top for the dimensions part.

Monday, 25 July 2016

Back last year I was entering the Rudolf Challenge over at SCRAPPYMO'S blog and she asked for people that would join her Design Team she had quite few people apply so she decided to have all of us as her DT and split us up into, one talented team for the first 6 months and another talented team for the last 6 months.

So I will be providing a DT card for

July, September, November, as my part of her DT.The challenge runs from the 25th of the month to the end of the month.

This design card is a kit from CraftsUprint, and you print it off, and put your own little tweaks to it.

I added extra card to make it firm as I hate floppy easel cards.

I also added some poinsettias made from a Robert Addams Die that I won on the Snippets Playground ages ago.

The poinsettias were cut out of snippets of card so I will be joining the Snippets Playground with this as I haven't managed to enter for a few weeks now.

I do hope you can enter a card into the Rudolf Challenge, and visit my Team friends to see their lovely creations.

Saturday, 23 July 2016

Well I do hope you are enjoying the lovely weather, and I am so sorry I moaned about it in my previous posts, as I do know some people love the warm and sunny weather.

I must admit it does make one a lot more cheerful than dull, and rainy weather we had in June.

Today I have another tissue box I decorated for the up, and coming fund raising event at my daughter's works.

You make these out of 3 A4 pieces of card.

The lovely lace around the lid, and the lace flowers belonged to my mother, and I inherited them when she passed away 13 years ago, as she collected lots of wonderful things as she was a very keen crafts person, and very talented artist also.

One thing I always remember is her making flowers out of pencil sharpening.

Friday, 22 July 2016

Sorry I didn't get around to commenting on every ones blogs yesterday and the day before, but I got so tired I fell asleep while at my computer.

My sister always says I can fall asleep anywhere, just don't sleep well at night so that's my excuse, and I take blood pressure meds which make me very sleepy some days, but strangely not at night.Hopefully you will forgive my lack of commenting, but I will try hard to catch up today, and tomorrow.

Well I can't believe it's Friday already, and time to share and older creation with ERIKA HERE.

This is all just for fun, but a delightful way to show newer followers your work before they joined you.

So here is mine for this week I made this for the butterfly challenge a few years ago.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

I made this with a Hunkydory kit I bought about 4 years ago.

I die cut the leaves, and added stickles to them, and I also die cut the butterflies and inked them with a combination of DI to give them their different colours to match the card.

It is the B Teams turn for this fortnight, and our host for this challenge is the lovely Tanja, and she has chosen the theme of Monsters, and orAliens.

So we would like to see your lovely creations with either Monsters or Aliens or both.

We have no sponsors for our challenge so it's all for just a top 3 badge, but well worth it, as we love to see your work entered, and visit you.

Now I can tell you I did struggle with this one, as I don't own anything to do with Monsters or Aliens, but the good old internet to my rescue.I fell in love with this cute Monster, and who could be scared of him.

This is a 8"x8" size card.

I made the backing paper from the image on my 3D2 CD yet again.

This is quite a old CD, and I sure have had my monies worth from using it, as well as it being so useful.

Added glossy accents to the eyeball.

Please pop along and have a look at the lovely creations made by my team mates. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.

Friday, 15 July 2016

Well it's Friday again, and time to share and Oldie with ERIKA HERE.This is all just for fun, but a great way to show your older projects, and it doesn't have to be a card it can be anything you have posted on your blog before or made some time ago.Next month it's my step daughter's Anniversary so I thought I would show a card I made for her, and her husband a couple of years ago.

This is a 8"x8" size card.I letter pressed the embossing folder with DI Tumbled Glass.The flowers are a Cheery Lynn Die.